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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:56:49 -0500, klaatu <klaatu@clark.net> wrote:
>TS wrote:
>> 
>> >There's no valid reason to "retest" most people.
>> >
>> >Driving skill doesn't deteriorate (assuming you possessed it in the first
>> >place :-) for the most part.
>> 
>> Your reflexes do
>



>And the ability, acquired through experience, to anticipate grows more quickly
>than reflexes fade. The prime of the animal is at age 17, but the prime of
>experience, before impeded by the deterioration of oncoming age, is roughly
>55.
>
>Anticipation of pattern and well-patterned holocharted responses will in every
>instance (except for blind luck or true genius) completely outweigh animal
>speed limited by a lack of _comprehension_ and _anticipation_.
>
>There's a reason there aren't many tigers left, if you get my drift. They're
>lots faster and stronger than men, but men _know_ tigers. The same holds true
>as regards traffic. 
>
>If course, most days you get the tiger and one day the tiger gets you. 
>
>> 
>> >
>> >As you get older, your eyesight and hearing can go (not always of
>> >course), your ability to concentrate (maybe).
>> 
>> And that will not effect your driving capabilities? get real, I think
>> your arguing against your self here.

It's clear that your "mind" is made up and you are just "grasping" at 
whatever "sounds" good.

we're talking about "as you get older" ie near retirement age.

There's no need to retest people every 5 years, some states do that 
simply to track citizens and raise revenue.

>
>Drivers over 55 or so tend to experience some minor deterioration varying on
>the individual's expected longevity, but as a rule, a person with 20/20 vision
>will not suffer significant impairment until roughly the age of 68 to 70. 
>
>The ability to concentrate is more problematic. Depending on the driver, quite
>often concentration isn't an issue by the time one is in late middle-age.
>Outside of cellular phones, one of the biggest causes of driver inattention is
>small children in the vehicle. By late middle age this isn't really likely to
>be an issue.
>
>> 
>> >
>> >( and as we've all seen, some people actually "shrink" and can't see over
>> >the wheel :-)
>> >
>> >Barring physical and or mental illnesses and injuries, people generally
>> >do not need to be "retested" on a regular basis.
>> >
>> >
>> >AZ now issues a license that doesn't expire until your 60th birthday, at
>> >which time you're retested every few years.
>> >
>> AZ is not NJ, driving in NJ is far more demanding.

I've got news for you, NJ is nothing compared to the traffic and terrain 
in AZ.

And I'd Love to see how well YOU'D fare at 120 degrees in a car with NO 
air conditioning, AND, bumper to bumper traffic.

>
>Yeah right, you've got some native driving sideways down the highway at you
>going 90 in a trashed-out pickup behind the influence of peyote, ritual, and
>maybe alcohol. That's not demanding. And you have noplace to go except into a
>ditch and that's if you're lucky, could be you're on a mountainside with
>noplace to go except waaaay down.
>


>In Jersey you can always drive on the sidewalk, judging from a lot of the
>bumber stickers I've seen on Jersey vehicles, that's a common place to drive.
>
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